The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and bilateral free trade agreements (FTA) will be a booster for Cambodia’s economic growth in the coming years, according to the World Bank’s economic update report released on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s state-owned news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) recently published an article, forecasting the foreign policy of the Royal Government for the seventh term under the leadership of new Prime Minister Hun Manet. ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. ASSiStant Secretary of State for EaSt ASian and Pacific AffairS Daniel J. Kritenbrink, U.S. AmbaSSador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy, and Cambodian MiniSter of Culture and Fine ArtS Phoeurng Sackona celebrated the repatriation of 27 looted artifactS to Cambodia at the National MuSeum today. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese firm Top Planning Japan Co Ltd’s (TPJ) apparent interest in investing in facilities in Battambang province to convert cashew nut shells into fuel and process the fibre-rich seeds for export has been greeted with much enthusiasm among local authorities and has dramatically heightened prospects ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the occasion of World Population Day, Prime Minister Hun sen said that the country’s headcount has increased from 11.4 million to 16.8 million between 1998 and 2022. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap City &ndaSh; With a hoSt of uncertaintieS Still hanging over the U.S. economy, more than 100 American buSineSSeS&mdaSh;the largeSt delegation to ever viSit Cambodia&mdaSh;gathered here over the weekend, and all of them were in agreement about one thing: The Slowdown in the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. will addreSS human rightS abuSeS in Cambodia and urge Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to conduct free and fair electionS and end a culture of land grabbing during PreSident Barack Obama&rSquo;S viSit to Phnom Penh next week. Samantha Power, Senior director for Multilateral AffairS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government wants to play a bigger role in helping local businesses remain competitive and, to this end, the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) has launched a new award to recognise companies that have achieved high produc-tivity standards. Ten companies will be awarded in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior National Election Committee official said yesterday evening that an additional eight political parties have received their application forms to field candidates to contest the upcoming national election in July. The official also said that other parties are completing their financial reports to submit ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women make up the majority of street vendors selling food, clothes and a range of other retail goods across Cambodia, a new report in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Business has revealed. Using data from Cambodia’s economic census, researchers Nobuo Hirohata and Kazuhiro Fukuyo, from Yamaguchi ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy and a convoy of CNRP officials had a rocky tour through the northwestern province of Oddar Meanchey on Wednesday.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

United StateS ASSiStant Secretary of State Daniel RuSSel yeSterday Said Cambodia&rSquo;S political Stalemate waS a matter of concern, but nonetheleSS expreSSed hope the coming electionS would be free and fair. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the Ministry of Labour met with former workers from three garment factories in the capital’s Por senchey district this morning after the owner absconded without warning last week, leaving 2,000 workers without their severance or salary for the month of January. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Navy personnel are preparing to hold joint exercises with counterparts from the United states next month, an official said yesterday. Mey Dina, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Royal Cambodian Armed Force’s Navy, said about 200 officers from both countries would begin the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union officials have applauded the Ministry of Labor which is preparing to ratify some International Labor Organization’s (ILO) conventions, including two that unions, factory workers and domestic workers have long demanded. The Labor Ministry said on Wednesday that to promote and protect the rights, benefits and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from Prime Minister’s Hun sen’s cabinet yesterday accepted the petition of 110 Preah Vihear villager representatives seeking intervention in a land dispute with defunct NGO DARPO. Hun sen cabinet member Nov Ra told villagers who protested in front of the prime minister’s house to return ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police officials said yesterday two people had died when a Mondulkiri gold mine collapsed on saturday, but that neither of them worked for the mining company that owns it. Provincial police chief Nhem Vanny said two men aged 25 and 30, had died in a ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 members of the Cambodian Grassroots People’s Assembly—a network of communities throughout the country that includes farmers as well as land and labor activists—will rally at Freedom Park on Monday to demand an end to the current political impasse. The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kandal provincial authorities and officials from multiple ministries are investigating the apparent theft of historical artefacts from a stupa at Oudong Mountain said to contain some remains of Buddha himself. Relevant authorities were tight-lipped yesterday about which objects were missing, but a local news outlet reported ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore Signed two energy-related MemorandumS of UnderStanding (MOUS) with Cambodia and the United Arab EmirateS (UAE), at the Singapore Energy Summit on Monday. ThiS iS part of itS effortS to Strengthen partnerShipS in the energy Sector. Second MiniSter for Trade and InduStry, Mr S ISwaran, SS='cambodia-color'>...